Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Seeking the identity of Jesus / Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays -- How the Gospels mean / William C. Placher -- Identity, Jesus, and exegesis / Robert W. Jenson -- God's life as a Jew: remembering the Son of God as Son of David / Markus Bockmuehl -- The Historians' Jesus and the Church / Dale C. Allison Jr. -- Veritas Christi: How to get from the Jesus of history to the Christ of faith without losing one's way / Frances Watson -- The embodiment of God's will: Jesus in Matthew / Dale C. Allison Jr. -- Identity and ambiguity in Markan Christology / Joel Marcus -- Learning and relearning the identity of Jesus from Luke-Acts / Beverly Roberts Gaventa -- Word of God, Messiah of Israel, Savior of the world: Learning the identity of Jesus from the Gospel of John / Marianne Meye Thompson -- The story of God's Son: The identity of Jesus in the letters of Paul / Richard B. Hays -- "Time would fail me to tell . . .": The identity of Jesus Christ in Hebrews / A. Katherine Grieb -- Moses and Jonah in Gethsemane: Representation and impassibility in their Old Testament inflections / Gary A. Anderson -- Isaiah and Jesus: How might the Old Testament inform contemporary Christology? / R.W.L Moberly -- The Word and his Flesh: Human weakness and the identity of Jesus in Patristic Christology / Brian E. Daley -- The Eucharist and the identity of Jesus in the early reformation / David C. Steinmetz -- The identity of Jesus Christ in the liturgy / Katherine Sonderegger -- The identity of the risen Jesus: Finding Jesus Christ in the poor / Sarah Coakley -- Reflections on a pilgrimage / Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays.